Travel+and+Immigration+Ban

=Legal push-back= The website for the [|9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals] will hear [|States of Washington and Minnesota Vs. Trump] (+ currently [Feb 6, 11:15am pst] has15 documents regarding State of Washington & State of Minnesota v. Trump 17-35105, beginning with video of hearing in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington and its Temporary Restraining Order. Includes Hawaii’s motion to intervene and 6 amicus briefs from professors, Korematsu Center, ACLU, 97 tech companies [AirBnB, Ancestry.com, Apple, Dropbox, eBay, Etsy, Facebook, Github, Google, Intell, Kickstarter, Levi Strauss, LinkedIn, Lyft, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, PayPal, Pinterest, Reddit, Spotify, Survey Monkey, Twitter, Uber, Wikimedia, Yelp], etc. The Trump administration reply is expected by 3pm today.

[|This LA Times article] identifies a likely path forward for the case, including a sojourn at the Supreme Court: “U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to decide quickly on Trump's travel ban,” LA Times, 5 Feb 2017

AAAS on meetings @http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/02/scientists-urge-boycott-us-meetings From that article I gather the boycott was announced 3 days ago from the Organizing Committee of the Commission G2 Massive Stars (196 members) @https://www.iau.org/science/scientific_bodies/commissions/G2/ which were not satisfied with the general [|International Astronomical Union (IAU)][| protest statement]
 * Boycott of US meetings by scientists **

Science Mag reports likelihood of more boycotts @http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/02/us-science-conferences-brace-boycotts-scienceinsider-briefing Here's a growing petition with 5800 signatories from scientists in all fields:

@https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeNN_2HHREt1h-dm_CgWpFHw8NDPGLCkOwB4lLRFtKFJqI25w/viewform Here's another petition re “If one of us can’t go, we don’t go at all.” @https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/canada-scientists-protest-donald-trump-travel-ban?0